Transport Workers Solidarity Committee

Workers based at DHL in New Zealand have lent their backing to a campaign against plans to amend the country’s labour laws.

A two-year battle for collective bargaining rights for technical workers at a Turkish airline has paid off following a successful legal challenge by their union.

Transport workers across the world are holding a day of action to ram home the message to UPS managers that the sacking of 157 workers in Turkey will not go unnoticed.

The ITF’s forty-second congress – its biggest ever and first in Latin America – will close today with a march through Mexico City in support of Mexican workers’ rights.

Paddy Crumlin was today elected the new ITF president Paddy Crumlin, national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) at the ITF Congress.

Congress delegates today passed a resolution denouncing Philippine Airlines’ decision to outsource thousands of jobs.

Two delegates from the Maritime Union of Australia, shop steward Tonia Kerns and river keeper from Port Hacking Fiona Thomson, are organising a collection for the 44,000 members of the SME electrical workers’ union.

Cleo Doumbia-Henry, international director of labour standards at the International Labour Organization, told the seafarers’ section conference on Friday that the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) was on course for ratification.

Turkish workers’ struggle to defend their union rights at UPS in Turkey prompted a standing ovation at the road transport workers’ section conference on Friday.

Civil aviation workers have been urged to back cabin crew at the British Airways (BA), where a dispute has been raging since the beginning of the year.

Audio-visual presentation spans the world “We have geared up to organise globally across the ITF as a whole.

Violations of trade union rights not just in Mexico but also in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Iran and other countries around the world will be highlighted today at a meeting in the main conference hall starting at 6pm.

Some 800 dockers and activists staged a rally in Indonesia to demand that a major port operator honour a negotiated agreement.

The ITF and a South African affiliate have been horrified to learn that a trainee seafarer died at sea after she alleged that she had been raped.

Dockers’ unions from the US and Costa Rica have filed a formal complaint against the Costa Rican government for labour law violations.

A UK union is to challenge the decision of a British national carrier to remove travel concessions from cabin crew who took part in strike action earlier this year.

Workers in the Philippines employed by the national carrier are in dispute over a proposal to dismiss thousands of workers and contract out their jobs.

The ITF has denounced the imposition of anti-democratic legislation in Panama and the tactics used to quash protests against it, which have seen at least six people killed.

A lockout in a Canadian port has angered dockers’ unionists; they had been in the process of negotiating a contract with their employer.

A South African union has reached an agreement with the civil aviation authority ending indefinite strike action.